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of virginia and the stuff that happened there that was quite disturbing, for me. should i -- why don't i read. sure, of course. by the end of the book, to end your question again, one of the things i learned was civic pride, having tried in the place i live. -- having pride in the place of the. along the way reenactors as they do think you'll become a reenactor? is this something you stick with? and so i didn't really think that it would. i was fascinated by the hobby and had a great time doing it. crazy adventure but i didn't really think that i would continue it. but a sword asked myself the question like well, what would i do. what they do if i was a reenactor? what with the choices i would make? in some regards this is my chance to editorialize but i hope this last chapter sort of reveals not only my sense of humor, but also my civic pride. and i wanted to do something about the place where i live. that's so difficult in los angeles because the history isn't that long, and it's not all that a parent. we have paved over a lot of the history. so i decided that i
of virginia and the stuff that happened there that was quite disturbing, for me. should i -- why don't i read. sure, of course. by the end of the book, to end your question again, one of the things i learned was civic pride, having tried in the place i live. -- having pride in the place of the. along the way reenactors as they do think you'll become a reenactor? is this something you stick with? and so i didn't really think that it would. i was fascinated by the hobby and had a great time doing...
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there are parts of virginia where the union army has a foothold. slavery still exists in those areas. mary stuckey talks about her book "defining america" the presidency and national identity [applause] >> now i have to try to be engaging. i think the most important thing to understand about the presidency and its context is that we always have choices. when you pick a president, you are absolutely picking a particular kind of policy but you are also picking a definition of our national identity. if you hear a president and like what they are saying and do you feel yourself call to that presidency, then they are speaking to you about a sense of the national self that is deeply embedded in all of us and every time there's a presidential election, what one of our previous presidents learned from his sorrow is really an important part of what the presidency does because we see ourselves as a nation through the ways that presidents talk the nation into being. so what i'm going to do today is talk a little bit about franklin roosevelt's version of what
there are parts of virginia where the union army has a foothold. slavery still exists in those areas. mary stuckey talks about her book "defining america" the presidency and national identity [applause] >> now i have to try to be engaging. i think the most important thing to understand about the presidency and its context is that we always have choices. when you pick a president, you are absolutely picking a particular kind of policy but you are also picking a definition of our...
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the four founders the puritans from the north, with the quakers from pennsylvania who hated the virginia cavaliers who looked at the georgians did care libyans with contempt of -- content. they knew if america could succeed it would have to get unum out of all of the pluribus. [laughter] liberals heaped this and any type of common ground. they knew it is about drawing distinctions to make a list of ann and out groups. in 1994 all gourde gave a speech in milwaukee about world affairs during some down time between the time he invented the internet and discovered global warming. it turned to e pluribus unum. we could have a six base large enough for all supported entities to be the purpose in them out of what many. ice wed -- swear. his exact words. he was quickly mopped. it was a freudian slip. out of what many. that is what they really wanted to mean with a wonderful place their retired to stud in the constitution when they pray and others are left were not one may say what he pleases and do no harm to another. property conceived as the same attribute it is approved of my labor my good de
the four founders the puritans from the north, with the quakers from pennsylvania who hated the virginia cavaliers who looked at the georgians did care libyans with contempt of -- content. they knew if america could succeed it would have to get unum out of all of the pluribus. [laughter] liberals heaped this and any type of common ground. they knew it is about drawing distinctions to make a list of ann and out groups. in 1994 all gourde gave a speech in milwaukee about world affairs during some...
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. >> i'm christine wiggins from alexandria, virginia. >> what books do you think shaped america? >> i think probably young adult books. i loved -- not the list but harry potter, and things i have -- student and fahrenheit 451, and to kill a mocking -- -- mockingbird. >> do yaw have any books you haven't read yet you might be interested in reading? >> some of the classics i've always meant to read and haven't. i want to go back and take a look at them. invisible man. i don't think i ever tackled that one. >> and we are back live at the national book festival here in washington, dc. this is day one of two days of coverage. the book festival has now expanded to two days and book tv will be live both days. of you want to see our schedule go to booktv.org and we're pleased to be joined with rajiv chandrasekaran, an associate editor at the was post, and most recently the author of this book, "little america" about the war in afghanistan. but where did the term little america come from? >> it came from a remarkable project in the 1950s, led by a team of american engineers, to develop pa
. >> i'm christine wiggins from alexandria, virginia. >> what books do you think shaped america? >> i think probably young adult books. i loved -- not the list but harry potter, and things i have -- student and fahrenheit 451, and to kill a mocking -- -- mockingbird. >> do yaw have any books you haven't read yet you might be interested in reading? >> some of the classics i've always meant to read and haven't. i want to go back and take a look at them. invisible...
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now these are motherless children back in virginia. the youngest, only two years old. now, dolly is hurting financially, even after selling montpelier. she hires jennings out to work in the james pulp white house so he has a second experience working in the white house. at one point, the president and dolly gave him permission to go back to virginia to visit his family, but he stayed longer than dolly approved. now he was on her bad side. he determined that he could wait no longer for his otonomy r for his freedom. that's when he went to daniel webster, and even as a slave, it helped to know people in high places, and webster, jennings knew that webster had come to the aide of other slaves in need, but he said hi could never own a slave so his mo was to extend the purchase price and then have the newly freed individual work for webster in his household to pay off the purchase price, and that's the deal that he struck with jennings. dolly sold jennings for $200. webster allowed jennings to pay back the purchase price at the rate of $8 a month. he freed him immediately.
now these are motherless children back in virginia. the youngest, only two years old. now, dolly is hurting financially, even after selling montpelier. she hires jennings out to work in the james pulp white house so he has a second experience working in the white house. at one point, the president and dolly gave him permission to go back to virginia to visit his family, but he stayed longer than dolly approved. now he was on her bad side. he determined that he could wait no longer for his...
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day when we went, we were in school in the northern virginia area. and what the gop has done since the late '50s is it has established itself in the south, but it did so come and julie's dad, a follow up on this as well, as was reagan and other important republican politicians, when the south became a two-party region, it became that on the basis of economic and private enterprise questions. texas became a republican state because of tremendous and very rapid economic development in texas, develop in the energy sector and so forth. virginia and north carolina and other states by the idea was that the republicans were not going to south and outbid the democrats on segregation. but they would try to transcend the issue by emphasizing economic develop and. this is the connection between the republican party, for as long as i can remember. julie and i were guests in the white house about six years ago, and we had an occasion after dark to walk on the south lawn and around the driveway where we had walked so often before. and julie excused herself and wal
day when we went, we were in school in the northern virginia area. and what the gop has done since the late '50s is it has established itself in the south, but it did so come and julie's dad, a follow up on this as well, as was reagan and other important republican politicians, when the south became a two-party region, it became that on the basis of economic and private enterprise questions. texas became a republican state because of tremendous and very rapid economic development in texas,...